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Note: !The Nickerson Family by The Nickerson Family Association in Chatham, Massachusetts vol. I. !Cape Cod Library of Local History & Genealogy #102.
Tristram and Anne took in and cared for a "distitute" infant, Sarah Nesfield
who was orphaned when her father, John, was killed in "Capt. Pierses Fight"
in Dec. 1675. "27 Oct. 1680; in reference unto a poor orphan named Sarah Nesfield....soe
as it is recouered of his weakes and forlorne condition, it being about six
year old att the date heerof, the said Trustram Hedgis and Anne, his wife,
haveing bine att some considerable charge and trouble in the keeping of her
(about 5 years) and requesting some satisfaction for the same, the Court doe
allow vnto them of fiue pound; the said naighbourhood of Mannamoiet to pay
vnto the said Hedgis the sum of three pounds of the said fiue pound in good
currant country pay and the remaining forty shillings to be payed by the
Treasurer." "1 March 1680/1; In reference vnto a poor orphan named Sarah Nesfield, being
in the custody of Trustram Hedgis, the Court doth order that the town of
Mannamoiet doe prepare and prouide a fitt place for the said child, and
remove it thervnto; and the Court doth free them from the payment of the
three pound which was ordered them to pay the said Hedgis for and towards
the keeping of it." Before this last entry Anne had died at the age of 45.
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